GYM TERROR

Abstract: A suspected militant detonated an explosive before
being shot dead by Egyptian security forces during a raid on a Cairo
neighbourhood gym, officials said.

The man was killed as
authorities raided the facility which was being used as a hideout, the Cairo
Security Directorate said in an e-mailed statement today. The suspect detonated
an explosive device in the gym, setting fire to several other apartments in the
building, it said.

Security forces found
various weapons on the premises, including 17 hand grenades, four rocket-propelled
grenade launchers and three automatic rifles, the directorate said.

Authorities have been
striking hard at suspected militants after an August attack in Sinai, near the
border with Gaza, left 16 border guards dead.

Earlier today, the Interior Ministry
said in a statement it intercepted a weapons shipment believed to be from Libya that included 24 rockets,
each more than five meters long, as well as two short-range rockets and 102
rocket-propelled grenades. Authorities also found 19 medium-sized barrels laden
with explosive compounds, it said (Bloomberg,
2012).